Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-06
A NEW LINE HEADED FOR BUTTE.

One OF tho encouraging signs OF th
times full OF promise for the future Of
Butte and of the Territory at large is the
uniform expression Of the Western press.
The following is a fair sample. It is from
the Denver Republican, which has advanced
ideas on the subject. because it is better
advised han some OF it's esteemed contem.
poraries:
We have often called attention to the fact that
the Denver, Utah & Pacific could easily be ex.
tened through Wyoming to Monta a, passing
near the edge of the Yellowstone Park. Con-
gress would not permit the Dad to be bun t into
or across the park; but it could build to one side
of 1t. A line running from Denver to Laramie
City, thencethrough the Wyoming oil region to
the edge OF Yellowstone Park. and thence to
Butte, Montana, would carry a very large part
of the travel between the East and South on the
one hand aud the Park and points in Montana
on the other.
The Republican is correct in it's conclu-
sions. Such q line would develope a carry
ing trade that would surprise some of the
competitors OF the Denver, Utah & Pacific.
1t would not only tap the oil regions refer.
red to and the Park, but the Clark's Fork
Mining District as well, which could but
result in the development of a second
Leadville. And a spur OF the main line
could be cheaply built on a natural grade
to the Rocky Fork Coal Fields, where there
tain country. now being rapidly developed
and only awaiting transportation facilities
to make it available for the fuel supply OF
the people Of Montana and Wyoming.
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The Park travel alone would make this
line q profitable investment. This season
many hundreds of Park tourists are side
tracking at Beaver Canyon awaiting stage
transportation from the Utah & North
ern TO wonderland over q rough road
and returning east over the Northern Pa
cifc. This ira fic will increase in volume as
the curiosities OF that great region are ad.
vertised and the facilities for seeing them
are increased. Hundreds of thousands OF
people have witnessed the marvels to be
seen in the Garden OF the Gods and the Mani
tou in Colorado. Yet the things to be seen
in those places are not to be compared
1Of n TT WIN the Ur~dnBCen0enG beauty
and superlative grandeur OF the National
Park OF the Yellowstone which has
no peer for sublimity and spec
tacular effect in all of the national splen.
dors of the known world.
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We trust therefore that the Denver, Utah
& Pacific will see it's way clear to tap all
OF these natural resources on it's way to
Butte, the greatest Silver and Copper City /
ever known in the history OF the world. I
This is a city that furnishes more than
seven million dollars worth OF shipments
annually and no railway system which 1
covets the business of the great West can
afford to give it the 60 by if it expects to !
prosper with such rivals as would contend
for supremacy or for even it's share of this
business. We think therefore that the
Denver, Utah Il Pacific, knowing as we do
it's reputation for energy, enterprise and re-
means to come this way as outlined
in the Denver Republican editorial quoted
above. We trust that this is it's intention
for we OF Butte, want all of the railways
can get.